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|  11-19-2015, 08:52 AM | #81 | |
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 It just comes down to how highly do you rate Booker T in this example. I just don't think he was worthy of the spot and having him beat HHH was a bad call long term. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 08:57 AM | #82 | |
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 It's all about who do you think will be must likely to be a larger than life superstar. I've watched ton of each guy in that time period and Batista comes off as a much bigger star than Booker. I don't see Booker in a top role in a James Bond movie. Batista oozes charisma and has more presence. Booker is a funny character, but when funny is your best quality, you probably shouldn't be a main event guy. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 09:40 AM | #83 | 
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			Funny can be main event, DB, Kurt Angle, Rock.
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|  11-19-2015, 09:45 AM | #84 | 
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|  11-19-2015, 10:21 AM | #85 | |
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 Would BT be on the level of Rock/Austin/Hogan? No, but not many are. Would a win have helped him to the level of HHH? Maybe. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 11:58 AM | #86 | |
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 Like christian winning the title and losing it a week later was cool with me because of the story it told. I didn't care if he gave it to Randy a week later. The way the story was set up, Booker should have gone over. Doesn't matter if he drops the belt back at the next PPV, the story would have made much more sense. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 12:10 PM | #87 | 
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			the much-maligned cynic
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|  11-19-2015, 01:26 PM | #88 | 
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|  11-19-2015, 01:27 PM | #89 | |
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 Still, I don't think that justifies putting Booker over Hunter. I just think the writers and Vince had a lapse in judgement as to how to get over the feud. Likely had something to do with Book being inferior to Hunter and WWE feeling they needed to do something extreme to get people behind Booker. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:30 PM | #90 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:30 PM | #91 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:35 PM | #92 | |
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 Do you think Booker was a guy they should have gone with in 2003? Like what would be the money program that would have led to? With Hunter as champ you had Goldberg and then Benoit as major babyface challengers. Say Book goes over at 19, and Trips fades into the background, what's the big business that Booker T as champ is building towards? | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:35 PM | #93 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:37 PM | #94 | 
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			I often feel like what it must feel like to try to oppose the leadership in North Korea.  I know lots of people agree with me,  but everyone has been brainwashed to think a certain way,  so they just dismiss what I say as being absurd and ludicrous.
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|  11-19-2015, 01:39 PM | #95 | |
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 Much like talking to a chick, I feel like you change the subject when I've made a point. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:39 PM | #96 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 01:44 PM | #97 | |
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 So if no racial undertones, it would have been okay if Hunter just beat him clean? Just trying to better understand your position. I hear your point, but i just don't think it hurt Booker in the end, it's somethingthe IWC clings on to. He ended being exactly what I thought he would become. Solid upper mid card guy. It's not luke people stopped caring about him after he let down every black person in the wield by losing to white supremacist Triple H. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 02:52 PM | #98 | 
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			The IWC are an interesting breed. Like it's unfathomable to the collective that someone on this planet could possibly dislike Daniel Bryan or Cesaro. Herd mentality.
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|  11-19-2015, 03:20 PM | #99 | |
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 I'd also argue that Booker's win would have told a better story HHH may have just crossed Batista once too often and it reached a boiling point.To Booker he was looking down on him not just as an inferior wrestler but an inferior human being.So by having him win you tell the audience that HHH this privileged,arrogant, quasi-racist dick is right in all he said about Booker T. Triple H was presenting himself as one of the worst kinds of villain at that point. He should have met his end at the hands of the man who was his opposite number the man he pegged as inferior to him in all aspects. Last edited by KIRA; 11-20-2015 at 01:42 AM. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 03:25 PM | #100 | 
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			Daniel Bryan sucks. Although I would rather have him as champion over face Reigns any day. Cesaro is the goods though
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|  11-19-2015, 03:37 PM | #101 | |
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 He's always goofy but he was shown to have a case of crouching moron hidden badass at several points don't see why booker couldn't have been the same way. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 03:53 PM | #102 | 
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			I really feel WWE shit the bed with Booker. For him to never win the WWE championship is a bit of a head scratcher. His one World Heavyweight Championship reigns was pretty good but really it was a  little late in his career. If he would have went over HHH that would have pushed him to new heights and maybe be a regular main event guy. But he was a WCW guy that Vince didn't create so he let Booker fall into the mid card.
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|  11-19-2015, 04:13 PM | #103 | |
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 We all know Vince is not prefect, but to say he passed over Booker T just because he was a WCW guy is a little... I dont even know the word... I'll call it Meltzerish. Especially odd line of thinking when a year later he had TWO WCW guys standing in the middle of his ring, in the middle of his arena, closing his company's marquee event. Maybe your better argument is Vince is racist. Which isn't true, but it seems like it has more weight to it. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 04:15 PM | #104 | 
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			Cesaro is fascinating to me.   He's clearly good,  he's very good even.   But this is where I'm a fan of staying of the sheets.  Until I started posting here again,  I never thought he was under pushed.  I've always thought he was like Hunter or Rock in 1996.  You could see they were really good,  but had not yet put it all together to headline.
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|  11-19-2015, 04:21 PM | #105 | 
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			Cesaro is awesome, but my point is that it's okay if somebody thinks otherwise.
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|  11-19-2015, 04:27 PM | #106 | 
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			I agree!
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|  11-19-2015, 04:34 PM | #107 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 04:39 PM | #108 | |
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 I dont know if he purposely did it but there was more money in Booker than whst he got. Eddie and Benoit jumped ship to WWF before they acquired WCW. That's different than Booker who was acquired in the sell. They jumped ship and Vince rewarded them. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 04:44 PM | #109 | |
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 What's worse is Triple H went on record and said that people mistinterpreted the Booker T angle. "You people" was meant to be a slight on WCW alumni. Suuuuuuuure. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 04:50 PM | #110 | 
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			All those nappy haired wcw wrasslers. Booker I believed should have went over to breath some life into raw which was very stagnant, cuz as cynick is trying to ignore, he gained a lot of steam BUT that's a different argument, and win vs loss is less egregious.
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|  11-19-2015, 04:51 PM | #111 | 
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|  11-19-2015, 04:51 PM | #112 | 
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|  11-19-2015, 05:00 PM | #113 | 
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			Gertner would like a word with you
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|  11-19-2015, 06:44 PM | #115 | 
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|  11-19-2015, 07:00 PM | #116 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 07:11 PM | #118 | |
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|  11-19-2015, 07:15 PM | #119 | |
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 Also I feel like they lucked into the Batista thing. It didn't feel like that was the original plan to put Batista in that role, but it just kind of happened. I forget what caused Batista to pick up so much steam. | |
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|  11-19-2015, 07:21 PM | #120 | 
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